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Call for Papers Theme: Relationships between Diasporas and Their 'Homelands' and Their Impact on the State, National Identities, Peace and Conflict Type: International Conference Institution: Institute for Migration Studies, Lebanese American University Centre for Intercultural Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Location: Beirut (Lebanon) Date: 3.–5.2.2012 Deadline: 10.11.2011 __________________________________________________ The Institute for Migration Studies (IMS) at Lebanese American University, in partnership with the Centre for Intercultural Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, invites you to submit abstracts for papers to be presented at the conference: Relationships between Diasporas and Their ‘Homelands’ and Their Impact on the State, National Identities, Peace and Conflict. With noted diaspora, migration and transnationalism specialists, Dr. Alan Gamlen, Oxford University, and Professor Thomas Faist, Bielefeld University, as Keynote Speakers. The Institute for Migration Studies (IMS) at Lebanese American University (LAU), in partnership with the Centre for Intercultural Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, is organizing a conference on the “relationships between Diaspora communities and their ‘homelands’ and their impact on the state, national identities, peace and conflict”. Scholars and researchers from various social science disciplines are encouraged to participate in this event by presenting papers on their latest research on these topics. The conference organizers encourage the presentation of papers on the increasingly systematic and intense relationships between Diaspora communities and their communities of origin. What are the emerging patterns in this new development and what are their basic features? What are the most appropriate theoretical concepts and structures that best describe and analyze these new patterns (e.g., transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, etc.)? Are second- and third-generation migrants implicated in these new developments? If yes, what are the character and the extent of this involvement? Participants are encouraged to pay special attention to the role of diasporic associations (hometown associations, political groups, charitable and village associations, religious groups and institutions, etc.) and their homeland counterparts, as well as the states of the sending (homeland) countries and their agencies abroad (e.g., embassies and consulates). Participants engaged in studying more than one migrant community are requested to conduct comparative analyses of two or more countries to further our understanding of comparative home/state-diaspora relationships and examine if pertinent theoretical conclusions are generalizable. Scholars and practitioners exploring theoretical issues pertaining to this discussion (transnationalist methodology, disembedded national identity, absentee voting and dual citizenship, class formation/transformation and migration, porosity of national boundaries, etc.) are also invited to this conference. Core members of the organizing committee for the conference: Professor Anton Escher ([email protected]) Dr. Paul Tabar ([email protected]) Dr. Jennifer Skulte-Ouaiss ([email protected]) Date of the conference: 3-5 February 2012. Location: Lebanese American University, Beirut. Deadline for submission of ABSTRACTS: 10 November 2011. Acceptance of abstracts will take place before 1 December. NOTE: Completed papers due to organizing committee five working days prior to conference. Abstracts should be sent to the following email: [email protected] and [email protected] Conference website: http://www.lau.edu.lb/news-events/conferences/rdhis2012/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
